When more presenting, training, and great tips for mastering anxiety sometimes just don’t help at all………

How fear of public speaking in its most severe form can be alleviated.

Public Speaking: tool for advancing your career

The ability to speak and present comfortably and well is a crucial element to advancing your career. Are you among those whose fear of public speaking keeps you from advancement because you hope to be able to avoid this crucial task?

Why does Fear of Public Speaking get worse?

Although the fear of public speaking can worsen over time, this is a very common pattern. How the fear builds and adds more related fears is explained, as well as the potential for good recovery with the right techniques.

Fear of Public Speaking and a Reason to Give Thanks

Many of my clients come to me having tried every way they could find to overcome their fear of public speaking — from self help groups to books to public speaking training to therapy and coaching. After years of trying to rid themselves of debilitating panic symptoms whose impact ranges from diminishing the quality of their speech to completely freezing, and even canceling the engagement altogether, they often find that their fear has only continued to get worse!!

When they come to me, they are usually hoping for some way to better manage their fear, having given up hope that their fear is cancelled out altogether. SO HERE’S A REASON TO GIVE THANKS THIS THANKSGIVING: FEAR OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND MANY OTHER PERFORMANCE FEARS ARE CURABLE!!

When clients complete my coaching process, the results range from an 80% to 100% drop in fear levels
“If that’s true then why don’t more people know about it” you ask. I believe that it’s because the techniques that work are not well known because they are practiced by a limited number of professionals with very specialized training.

We all know about powerful fear reactions like “fight,” “flight,” and “freeze”, right? But do we all know how they work, and how to change those reactions? NO and NO. In my continuing posts, you will learn more about how these fears are formed and how they can be substantially undone.

To learn more quickly, you can find out about these methods on my website: . Or stay tuned to my posts, and I will begin to explain the many aspects of the process which has helped many clients to be free of their fear for good.

Public Speaking and a baby’s brain

What do baby’s brains, fear of public speaking and peak performance states have in common?

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog of Fear of Public Speaking Coach, Nancy Cetlin, Ed.D. Visit frequently to take advantage of Nancy’s broad knowledge base on helping people overcome many different kinds of “performance anxieties,” the most common of which is the fear of public speaking.  Everyone has some joke about it, and just about everyone has at some time had its symptoms when about to face an audience, a job interview, or an audition.

Nancy will also be offering suggestions and specific techniques that can enhance your performance not only in front of a group, but in many other workplace and real life situations.  And please feel free to post questions about her broad and effective array of coaching and psychological methods.